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TileMill: Custom Maps to Help with Data Dumps, Hyper-Local
TileMill is an open source toolkit that helps you create beautiful custom maps in the cloud, built by Development Seed. We recently won a Knight News Challenge award (a.k.a. “Tilemapping”) to help us...
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Helping D.C. Drinkers and Bikers with Custom Maps
In my last post about TileMill, I outlined some of our general plans and the background for why we’re working on this project to help make it easier for people to design very custom maps online. One...
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Open Data + Custom Maps = Better Afghan Election Monitoring
If your organization is working on an open data release and your goal is to maximize the reach and impact of your data, sometimes just releasing the data and tools isn’t enough to accomplish your goal....
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Mapnik: The Coolest Mapping Software You've Never Heard Of
On the MapBox website we describe TileMill — the project we’re working on with our 2010 Knight News Challenge grant — as “a toolkit for rendering map tiles”. To be more specific, it’s essentially a...
View ArticleHow the FCC is Creating Better Open Data
In the context of our TileMill project, we’ve been talking about our goal to help make open data from governments more actionable by making it easier to turn GIS data into custom maps. We’re focused on...
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